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Job Description

Care for ill, injured, or convalescing patients or persons with disabilities in hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, private homes, group homes, and similar institutions. May work under the supervision of a registered nurse. Licensing required.

Job Details

The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 29-2061.00
The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 44,840.00
The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 21.00
Currently, there are 702,400 people on this job

☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses”.

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Tasks for “Triage Licensed Practical Nurse (TRIAGE LPN)”

Sterilize equipment and supplies, using germicides, sterilizer, or autoclave.
Record food and fluid intake and output.
Wash and dress bodies of deceased persons.
Assemble and use equipment, such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen suppliers.
Collect samples, such as blood, urine, or sputum from patients, and perform routine laboratory tests on samples.
Set up equipment and prepare medical treatment rooms.
Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and respiration.
Provide medical treatment or personal care to patients in private home settings, such as cooking, keeping rooms orderly, seeing that patients are comfortable and in good spirits, or instructing family members in simple nursing tasks.
Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other healthcare team members as necessary.
Supervise nurses' aides or assistants.
Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.
Prepare patients for examinations, tests, or treatments and explain procedures.
Assist in delivery, care, or feeding of infants.
Inventory and requisition supplies and instruments.
Help patients with bathing, dressing, maintaining personal hygiene, moving in bed, or standing and walking.
Work as part of a healthcare team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions.
Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' charts.
Clean rooms and make beds.
Prepare or examine food trays for conformance to prescribed diet.
Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them.
Make appointments, keep records, or perform other clerical duties in doctors' offices or clinics.
Apply compresses, ice bags, or hot water bottles.
Provide basic patient care or treatments, such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging, or performing catheterizations.

Related Technology & Tools

Wrist restraints
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Dialysis machines
Fabric body holders
Non-vented intravenous IV catheter tubing
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Nebulizers
Non-invasive cardio respiratory monitors
Pocket spirometers
Portable nebulizers
Lap belts
Jackson-Pratt drains
Oxygen cylinders
Crutchfield tongs
Continuous passive motion CPM equipment
Tuberculin TB skin test equipment
Safety vests
Abdominal binders
Traction equipment
Tracheotomy tubes
Heart monitors
Electronic stethoscopes
Notebook computers
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Restraints
Evacuated blood collection tubes
Enema equipment
Blood transfusion drip regulators
Tourniquets
Digital spirometers
Glucometers
Filtered intravenous IV catheter tubing
Walkers
Intubation suctioning kits
Electronic blood pressure units
Hemovac drains
Ankle restraints
Hyper/hypothermia blankets
Over-the-needle intravenous IV catheters
Personal computer PC-based spirometers
Pediatric nebulizers
Canes
Hollow needles
Intermittent infusion sets
Patient controlled analgesia PCA pumps
Wheelchairs
Urinary catheters
Intravenous IV needles
Electronic compressor nebulizers
Electrocardiography EKG units
Knee braces
Infusion pumps
Desktop computers
Pneumatic boots
Infusion sets
Walking braces
Oxygen masks
Neck braces
Capillary tubes
Limb restraints
Mechanical stethoscopes
Automated external defibrillators AED
Blood glucometers
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Posey vests
Wheelchair belts
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Syringes
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Needleless intravenous IV withdrawal equipment
Intramuscular needles
Needleless glucometers
Non-invasive cardiac output monitors
Personal computers
Closed infusion systems
Patient lifters
Safety jackets
Transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation TENS equipment
Crutches
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Clinical trapezes
Respiration monitors
Telemetry units
Ultrasonic cardiac output monitors
Handheld spirometers
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Circo-electric beds
Rotating bed
Intradermal needles
Safety belts
Hemoglobinometer machines
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Mercury blood pressure measuring equipment
Traction weights
Oxygen supplies
Tablet computers
Lancets
Needleless intraveneous IV sets
Bucks extensions
Through-the-needle intravenous IV catheters
Safety infusion systems
Transfer boards
Apnea monitors
Oxygen tubing
Saturation of oxygen SaO2 monitors
Butterfly needles
Vented intravenous IV catheter tubing
Intermittent positive pressure breathing IPPB apparatus
Heparin locks
Frames
Subcutaneous hypodermic needles
Flexible nasogastric tubes
Pulmonary function testing PFT equipment
Air fluidized beds

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